War on Iraq - The Triumph of Lies, Cupidity and Cruelty
TAI 4/20/2003 - "9/11 had changed the world", reponded George W Bush to journalists reflecting the
public anxierty about the morality of his war. After having secured the Congress?s blank check for war,
Bush is wild with the unexpected powers that give him the opportunity to order the killing of those who
"tried to kill (his) dad" and to build the world empire of his dreams.
More than one month after the start of the destruction and occupation of Iraq, with Saddam ousted, the
Bush administration still has no evidence to support its allegations that the Saddam regime had links with
Al-Qaeda.
The Bush administration's troops have inspected all the Iraqi sites, and there is still no smoking gun, no
single evidence of weapons of mass destruction. There was no signs of weapons of mass destruction in
Iraq before the G W Bush's war. The U.N inspectors were right. The Bush administration knew that the
U.N. inspectors were right, but their sinister agenda was to utilize the U.N. to further disarming the
Saddam regime in order to attack a weak nation and to show the American people a war victory trophy,
be it soiled with thousands of Iraqi children's blood and barbaric destructions.
The Bush administration promised to liberate the Iraqi people and to establish a (Western) democracy
over a Saddam-free Iraq.
However, as we predicted it in a former article (The Utopian Dream of a Democratic Transplant in Iraq),
the Chiite majority's main claim is now the unconditional withdrawal of the U.S. and other occupying
troops and the instauration of an Iranian-like Islamic regime in Iraq.
The Sunnites have been defeated along with the Saddam regime, but they have not conceded and will
claim their own form of government over Iraq.
The Kurds would never accept any other ethnic group's supremacy over "their" oil-rich lands, and will
claim their own independent State, the Kurdistan.
Therefore, to cover its international shame, the Bush's Radical inner circle is looking for scapegoats. They
started with Syria, threatened of war if it does not "cooperate" by giving up the Iraqi weapons of mass
destruction. The famous weapons were supposedly hidden there by the Saddam regime, but the CIA
and the high performing U.S. satellites, continuously swepping the entire Middle-East region,
unfortunately missed to track them.
Keeping under same way, the Bush administration is accusing Iran of trying to export the Iranian
revolution into Iraq, which is a bigger threat to the U.S. and would need be stopped the best by a war
against Iran.
The Bush's Nazi agenda list also includes the Libanon question, the Egyptian concerns, in short the Arab
and Muslim threat, all needing war solutions... unless they "cooperate".
Iraqi prisons opened their doors and gladly provided us with POWs all alive, not skeleton-like, not dead.
Was it so difficult for their jailers to kill these American POWs before they fled away as the invading
machines of death were ousting them from power? Therefore, was Saddam Hussein really a ?ruthless
dictator??
Saddam was certainly a dictator, but we have to agree that he was not the ruthless one Bush alleged he
was.
The liar and the ruthless actually is the one who ordered the bombings of thousands of innocent Iraqi
children, elders and women, the killing of journalists trying to report the true face of the invasion that
Washington detested, the savage destruction of the rare goods the poor Iraqi people strove to build, the
shameless looting of Iraq's historical treasures, the adjudication of reconstruction contracts forcing the
future Iraqi institutions to honor commitments they did not agree upon, etc.
Lies and cruelty are coupled with shameful cupidity when we find out that Bechtel Corp., the winner of
the first, $680 million contract (for repairing and rehabilitating things like power plants, electrical grids,
water and sewage systems, airports and a seaport) ?has deep and longstanding ties with the power
centers in Washington? according to a New York Times? editorial. The article concludes: ?Bechtel's
chief executive serves on the President's Export Council, and a Bechtel director, George Shultz, was
secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan. Such ties make it all too easy to criticize the contract
as a payoff to politically favored businessmen.?
This is what a minority of Americans have supported, accepting that the world-wide image of the U.S. be
that of lies, cupidity and cruelty, accepting that Americans be seen overseas as shameless and ruthless
Vandals.
Sam Meko
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